Restoring a game? Want to try a new button hole drill?

[chris25810]

I was the lucky recpient/guinea pig for this bit. I have a drill press but knowing most of you don't i just chucked it up in a standard household drill. The key with this and any bit is lubrication and a little patience. I ran the drill slow, gave it a couple suirts of oil and within 15-20 seconds it was over. It drilled a nice clean hole with no jamming or wandering and the best part is there's no slug to fish out like you have to do with typical hole saw bits. Don't know what these are gonna cost but it's well worth it in my book

 

[p1001]

Again, this is a steel bit. It'll only drill about 3/16 deep. We tried this bit and a couple bigger sizes on some steel and stainless pull boxes. Clamping it down and using a nice, powerful drill this thing cut like butter. Didn't bind up at all. We did use some Anchorlube. Interesting little tool.

Unless I read wrong, it seems the teeth are too agressive and want to pull into the metal 'feeding' too fast. Hence the reason most whole saws have many smaller teeth. I imagine if you had that sucker in a mill machine with the panel secured solid it would do great simply the fact your machinery is so solid the sheet metal has to take the energy and therefore cutting.

This is why I asked if it was for wood in the first place. The wood would be more likely to cut and not allow the teeth to draw in with less energy required to hold the drill back. Advantage of less and larger teeth would be longevity, less material chip jams etc...

Just my opinion/view...

 

[p1001]

Yes, Ken. A little cutting oil will definitely help.

When using this holesaw, does it work better with cutting oil?